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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFlCE.

WALTER JAEGER AND HERMAN POTST OCK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; SAID JAEGER AS- SIGNOR 'IO CHRIST BULLINGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CIGAR BOX.

Application filed December 24, 1920. Serial No. 432,948.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER Jane-iii: and HERMAN Pors'roon, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to cigar boxes.

Smoking is prohibited in many places and, in many instances, smokers are desirous of keeping unconsumed lighted cigars while they are temporarily in such places. The object of the invention is to provide an improved container which is adapted to contain a lighted cigar so that it need not be wasted when the smoker has occasionv to remain for some time in a place where smoking is prohibited.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claim at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a perspective of the container when closed. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the container in open position. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the box. Fig. l is a perspective of the insulating liner.

The inventionv is exemplified in a box formed of sections 5 and 6 which are hinged together, as at 7, and are normally'held together to form a closed box by a coilspring 8. The sections, when closed, form a container which is approximately cigarshaped and adapted to contain a. cigar. The sections are formed to measurably fit around a cigar and, for this purpose, their outer ends are curved and tapered, as at 9. In order to adapt the container to hold a lighted cigar, each section is provided with a corrugated liner 9 which is suitably se cured therein and generally conforms to one of the sections and, as a result, when a lighted cigar is placed'in the box and the box is closed, the outer portion of the box will not becomevso hot that it cannot be conveniently carried inthe pocket. The edges of the sections are preferably lapped to form a fairly tight joint, so that combustion will be discontinued when the container is closed. The box may, if desired, be provided with a clip, 10 by which it may be held in upright position in a vest or coat pocket.

The invention exemplifies a, container which is adapted to receive and retain a lighted cigar and to be carried in the pocket without transmitting excessive heat to the pocket.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted tothe details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A cigar box shaped to substantially conform to a single cigar and comprising a pair of sections pivoted together at one end, each section being provided with a corrugated sheet metal liner secured therein and extending over substantially its entire inner,

area, said sections having their contiguous side edges and other end overlapped so as to form a substantially tight joint therebetween when a lighted cigar is held in the box between the two corrugated liners.

IVALTER JEAGER. HERMAN POTSTOCK. 

